Casio QV-3000EX

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Review First Posted: 2/14/2000

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True 3 million pixel sensor, 2048x1536 resolution

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High-quality 3x f/2.0 zoom lens made by Canon

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Manual focus, manual exposure options

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Movie capture

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Slick user interface!

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Casio was one of the very first companies to produce digital cameras for consumers, and their original QV-10 digicam introduced digicam users to the wonders of LCD viewscreens. What a concept! It's become almost mandatory these days, but back when the QV-10 was first introduced, the feature was a real eye-opener.
Casio has continued to innovate, with each generation of cameras becoming more "camera like", while still reflecting their consumer-electronics roots in their style and functional user interfaces. The QV-3000EX is Casio's latest (February, 2000), not only their first 3 Megapixel design, but apparently the first 3 Megapixel camera to actually reach the stores. In our testing, we found that it produced the best image quality of any Casio camera we've tested to date, provided excellent photographic controls, and represents an exceptional value, when you consider that Casio is shipping every unit with a 340 megabyte (!!) IBM MicroDrive as the memory card! (We don't know whether this bundle will be a permanent offering, or if it's just an introductory special, but it constitutes an amazing deal: Consider that at the time of this writing (February, 2000), MicroDrives alone are selling for $450 or so, and Casio is including one with a 3 Megapixel camera for a bundled price of only $999!)Highlights